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Originally Posted by chevyrestoguy
Here is the panel after I did a bunch of hammer and dolly work and slowly stitched the torn areas back together. I drilled about 15 .098 holes to stop-drill all of the cracks. The cracks had spread everywhere. Getting it all dollied and stitched back together helped get the outer shape back to where it needed to be. I'm still deciding on whether to make the patch panels the circular shape or just cut a large square panel that fixes them in one shot. The skin was also torn around the edge of the entire area where it meets the cowl, an area about 10" total. I still have to fill the 1/2" hole in the front corner, but that'll be a snap.
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Question for you? In the picture above when you grinded the welded surface down why is there a black lowered edge around the weld zone? Can you prevent this? When I am welding sometimes I have these lowered darkened areas and would like to learn how to prevent it? I am asking you because you seem to have a craftsmanship way above and beyond.